Murky Details Surround Bed, Bath and Beyond Breach

Housewares and home furnishings purveyor Bed, Bath and Beyond has disclosed a data-thieving cyber attack that allowed the adversaries to access customers’ online accounts. According to a Tuesday SEC filing, the company “discovered that a third party acquired email and password information from a...

What you — and your company — should know about cyber insurance

By Jon Munshaw and Joe Marshall. It’s no longer a question of “if” any given company or organization is going to be hit with a cyber attack — it’s when. And when that attack comes, who is willing to take on that risk? For some groups, it may be that they feel they are fully prepared to take on th...

DEF CON 2019: Picture Perfect Hack of a Canon EOS 80D DSLR

LAS VEGAS – Multiple vulnerabilities in Canon’s DSLR camera firmware could allow an attacker to plant malware on devices and ransom images from users. The bugs, outlined in a session here at DEF CON, open the door to a range of hacks via a Wi-Fi network or a PC’s USB connection to a camera. Eyal...

Ransomware Attack Caused Power Outages in the Biggest South African City

Yesterday, some residents of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, were left without electricity after the city's power company got attacked by a ransomware virus. City Power, the company responsible for powering South Africa's financial capital Johannesburg, confirmed Thursday on Twitt...

Exclusive: German Police Raid OmniRAT Developer and Seize Digital Assets

The German police yesterday raided the house of the developer of OmniRAT and seized his laptop, computer and mobile phones probably as part of an investigation into a recent cyber attack, a source told The Hacker News. OmniRAT made headlines in November 2015 when its developer launched it as a...

Exclusive: German Police Raid OmniRAT Developer and Seize Digital Assets

The German police yesterday raided the house of the developer of OmniRAT and seized his laptop, computer and mobile phones probably as part of an investigation into a recent cyber attack, a source told The Hacker News. OmniRAT made headlines in November 2015 when its developer launched it as a...

The vulnerability of the h5dump program for processing hdf5 files arises from buffer overflows during the processing of command-line parameters, allowing attackers to cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the h5dump program for viewing hdf5 files arises from buffer overflows during the processing of command-line parameters. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure by entering a specially crafted sequence of data in the command line...

Dell pre-installed SupportAssist components DLL hijacking vulnerability, worldwide more than 1 billion devices face a cyber-attack risk-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

SupportAssist is a powerful support application helps to ensure that the user of the system is always running optimally, take the initiative to find the problem and allows you to run the diagnostic program and the driver update scan. Recently, however, researchers have found that this tool softwa...

Microsoft Pushes Azure Users to Patch Linux Systems

Microsoft is warning customers that some Azure installations are vulnerable to a recently-disclosed critical Linux Exim mail server flaw that is under active attack. The warning comes after a widespread worm campaign was disclosed on Friday, targeting a flaw in the Exim mail transport agent MTA,...

Border Patrol data breach: Footages of tourists entering/exiting the US compromised

By Waqas The data breach took place after a database used by Border Patrol was hit by a "malicious cyber-attack." The officials from US Customs and Border Protection CBP have revealed that one of their subcontractors have been targeted with a “malicious” cyber attack due to which the pictures of...

Data Breach Exposes 100K U.S. Traveler Photos, License Plates

UPDATE The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that a recent data breach exposed photos of the faces and license plates for more than 100,000 travelers driving in and out of the country. The department said Monday that the breach stemmed from an attack on a federal subcontractor. Customs and...

Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter hacked with photo of Pakistani PM Imran Khan

By Uzair Amir Turkish hackers left a message protesting against Ireland on a Twitter account owned by India actor. The official Twitter account of Bollywood's legend Amitabh Bachchan has apparently been hacked by Turkish hacking group calling itself "Ayyildiz Tim." The verified Twitter account wi...

Why So Many Businesses Can Never Recover After Cyber Attacks

By Uzair Amir A cyber attack can cripple critical infrastructure and businesses and generate negative press. In other cases, it could open you and your business to litigation. This and other factors can seriously hurt a business, and it forces many of them to pay for data recovery or IT security...

TeamViewer was Targeted by Chinese Hackers in 2016

By Ryan De Souza TeamViewer has only confirmed now that Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted the company in 2016. The Germany-based company behind the world-famous remote desktop software TeamViewer has confirmed that in 2016 TeamViewer software was compromised. The confirmation comes right...

Report Reveals TeamViewer Was Breached By Chinese Hackers In 2016

The German software company behind TeamViewer, one of the most popular software in the world that allows users to access and share their desktops remotely, was reportedly compromised in 2016, the German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed today. TeamViewer is popular remote-support software that allow...

Israel Neutralizes Cyber Attack by Blowing Up A Building With Hackers

The Israel Defense Force IDF claims to have neutralized an "attempted" cyber attack by launching airstrikes on a building in Gaza Strip from where it says the attack was originated. As shown in a video tweeted by IDF, the building in the Gaza Strip, which Israeli fighter drones have now destroyed...

A Mysterious Hacker Group Is On a Supply Chain Hijacking Spree

A group of likely Chinese hackers has poisoned the software of at least six companies in just the last three years...

How to Respond to a Cyber Attack on Your Business

By Ryan De Souza Cyber security affects businesses of all sizes, and in every industry. Today it is a board-level agenda item, which has been placed at number three on the Lloyds Risk Register 2013. When it comes to dealing with a cyber attack, every single person involved with the business shoul...

Threat Source (April 25)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

Weather Channel Knocked Off-Air in Dangerous Precedent

On Thursday, The Weather Channel – a trusted cable network source of meteorological data across the U.S. – was knocked off the air by what it said was a “malicious software attack” on its network. The Weather Channel hack – not to be confused with the Weather Channel’s own hacks – affected its li...